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World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III: 1948-1982 (ICPSR 7761)

Principal Investigator(s):Taylor, Charles Lewis; Jodice, David A.

Summary:

This third edition of the World Handbook of Political
and Social Indicators is composed of four files, one aggregate
data file (Part 1), and three events data files including a daily
events political data file (Part 2), an annual political events
data file (Part 3), and a new quarterly political events data
file (Part 4). The aggregate data file (Part 1) is based upon data
from the base years of 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, and 1975. It
contains political, economic, and social data and rates of... (more info)

This third edition of the World Handbook of Political
and Social Indicators is composed of four files, one aggregate
data file (Part 1), and three events data files including a daily
events political data file (Part 2), an annual political events
data file (Part 3), and a new quarterly political events data
file (Part 4). The aggregate data file (Part 1) is based upon data
from the base years of 1950, 1955, 1960, 1965, 1970, and 1975. It
contains political, economic, and social data and rates of
change for 155 countries. Data are provided for central government
current revenue and expenditure, gross national product and growth
rates, imports, exports, and trade as a percentage of the gross
national product, total military expenditure and manpower,
public education, public health expenditure, energy consumption,
coal, natural gas, and petroleum reserves and production, GINI
measures of inequity, income inequity, sectorial inequity,
coefficient of land inequality, political and civil rights
indices, political and economic discrimination, the percentage
of those discriminated against and its intensity, the proportion
and intensity of separatism, voting behavior, the number of
registered voters and voter turnout as a percentage of the adult
population, the first five largest political parties, total
legislative seats, total adult and working age population,
population density, percentage of population in cities,
agricultural density, health and nutrition measures, consumption
measures, literacy, and school enrollment. Data are also provided
for the percentage of the labor force in agriculture, industry,
and the services, organized labor, industrial disputes and the
number of working days lost, the life expectancy for males and
females, infant mortality rates, and estimated birth rates and
death rates, as well as the number of scientific authors,
physicians per million population, total piped water, and
newspapers, radios, television sets, and telephones per 1000
population. There are three files of events data in this
collection. The first file records daily political events, the
second aggregates these events to an annual file, and the third
aggregates the same events into a quarterly file. The Daily
Event Data file (Part 2) contains a variety of governmental
change and political protest events for 139 countries. It
records 38 kinds of domestic events including demonstrations,
riots, strikes, assassinations, elections, referenda, and
imposition of political restrictions, including censorship.
Some of the 38 event types were only distinguished for the
events occurring in particular periods. For example, the
categories of bombing, ambush, raid, arrest, release of the
arrested, imposition of martial law or curfew, and relaxation
of martial law or curfew were added in 1978. The Annual
Events Data file consists of summations of the occurrences
of each type of event within each country on a year-to-year
basis from 1948 to 1977. The annual totals are given for the
same countries as in the daily file, with the exception of
three countries. The Quarterly Event Data file consists of
summations of the occurrences of each type of event within
each country on a quarter-to-quarter basis. The 38 types of
events coded in the quarterly events file have also been
collapsed to 17 broader categories to maintain comparability
with earlier editions of the handbook.

Study Description

Citation

Taylor, Charles Lewis, and David A. Jodice. World Handbook of Political and Social Indicators III: 1948-1982. ICPSR07761-v2. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 1986. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR07761.v2

Universe:
A total of 156 countries with a million or more
population or which were members of the United Nations in mid-1975.

Data Types:
event/transaction data

Data Collection Notes:

The series on foreign interventions included
in World Handbook II are not included in this edition of the
Handbook.

These data were originally processed by the
Zentralarchiv Fur Empirische und Sozialforschung at the University
of Cologne, to archival standards. The three events data files,
updated to include data from 1978-1982, were processed by ICPSR.
ICPSR has done no additional processing of the aggregate data file.

Methodology

Data Source:

United Nations agencies, official publications of
national governments, special studies, scholarly monographs and
publications, and nongovernmental research organizations publications

Extent of Processing: ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of
disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major
statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to
these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection: